Book list: The books a bunch of finance luminaries recommend from 2015 including Rise of the Robots by Martin Ford
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Quote of the Day
"The bottom line is that, while low grade corporate bonds almost always blow out on the cusp of of early stages of a recession, the converse is not true. You can have a junk bond blowout without triggering or indicating a recession."
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Chart of the Day
2015 has been an unusual year for high yield because such poor returns usually only occur in recessions.
Markets
- There's not much in the way of positive asset class performance in the past year. (capitalspectator.com)
- Dividend cuts are picking up. (politicalcalculations.blogspot.com)
Strategy
- Why you should take a Fed rate hike in stride. (basonasset.com)
- Wall Street forecasts are pretty much useless. (pragcap.com)
- Why pick winners when it is just as profitable to avoid the losers. (valueandopportunity.com)
- Junk bonds go through periods of volatility. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
- 25 traders to follow on Twitter. (newtraderu.com)
Offers
- Dedicated e-book readers you can get $20 off the Kindle or Kindle Paperwhite for a limited time. (amzn.to)
- MODERN TRADER Magazine—the essential journal for professional traders and active investors. Get one of five investment classics with this special subscription offer! (moderntrader.com)
Apple
- Why is Apple ($AAPL) bothering with an "ugly, underpowered" battery case? (slate.com)
- Apple ($AAPL) a self-reinforcing profit machine. (appleinsider.com)
- Apple ($AAPL) Music is getting deeper into the Taylor Swift business (recode.net)
Companies
- There are no shortage of plans to fix Yahoo ($YHOO). (wsj.com)
- To start Yahoo ($YHOO) should stop wasting money on failed startups. (businessinsider.com)
- The sad story at Biglari Holdings ($BH) rolls on. (inelegantinvestor.com)
- Consumer pricing is going dynamic. (wsj.com)
Finance
Funds
- On the advantages of bond ETFs vs. bond mutual funds. (etf.com)
- A buying opportunity is setting up in junk bond ETFs. (fmdcapital.com)
- A hedge fund manager who makes money shorting leveraged ETFs. (reuters.com)
- Are junk bond ETFs doing what they are supposed to? (thereformedbroker.com)
Economy
- The Fed has only one crack at this liftoff thing. (economistsview.typepad.com)
- Why interest rates could stay low for a long time to come. (mobile.nytimes.com)
- What 1099 forms tell us about the rise of the "gig economy." (bloombergview.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Research links: the pain train. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you may have missed in our Sunday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Top clicks this week on the site. (abnormalreturns.com)
- A house is an asset not an investment. (abnormalreturns.com)







